re: LSU baseball update from Coaches Committee meeting Tuesday night

I don't agree with many of Javi's coaching decisions as third base coach but that is different from assessing his recruiting abilities. I suspect Will Davis has a better perspective on Sanchez's recruiting methods than either you or me. He sees it every day all year long, not just on signing day.

quote:In college baseball you don't recruit players first. You recruit the players' coaches. At least, that is how Will Davis explained it to me last night.

He said Sanchez has a network of coaches, both high school and JC coaches, who tell him who he needs to go see, even for players who don't play for that coach. He gave me several specific examples in the recruiting class described last night.

Anybody on here who thinks a typical player in Florida grows up wanting to play in Louisiana, well, you're just not living in the real world.

But I'm sure posters on this board know more about recruiting than the LSU coaches do.

I'm well aware how the recruiting process works for baseball. it's different than football and basketball. Most juco players will commit to the biggest name and don't care about how interested they really are in the school. FACT. And Javi isn't the only coach with connections, there are plenty of other hitting coaches that are better recruiters and actual coaches that would do anything to coach at LSU. Javi is awful at both.

And if Javi is such a good recruiter tell me how he blew 3 commitments of kids from Texas, just in the 2013 class. All were ready to commit and Javi just stopped answering their calls and they went elsewhere. Javi isn't the second coming..

You're right Javi is the only coach on staff that recruits

Javi is the most overrated coach in the country. LSU recruits itself. Javi is awkward as a recruiter. And an awful coach all around.

quote:And if Javi is such a good recruiter tell me how he blew 3 commitments of kids from Texas, just in the 2013 class. All were ready to commit and Javi just stopped answering their calls and they went elsewhere. Javi isn't the second coming..

Care to elaborate? Looks like the class is full so who knows (without some detail) - perhaps other recruits became bigger priorities as the numbers started to crunch?

quote:Your anecdotal comments about not reurning phone calls, blah, blah, blah are meaningless without knowing all the circumstances. And that's assuming what you're referring to Is even true. Thanks anyway.